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Sorry if this has been posted before. For sure Lego toys aren't indispensable but I feel a bit sorry for parents anyway.

A letter shared on social media this week from a senior Lego executive to UK toy retailers revealed that prices would increase across the board from 1 January.

Signed by Lego UK and Ireland’s general manager and vice-president, Fiona Wright, it explained that the hike was a “direct result of the continued devaluing of the UK pound”. The letter went on to warn that the company might be forced to put up prices again in the “event of further negative trend”.

It means that a Star Wars Lego Death Star set, currently priced at £399, will go up by £20 next year, while a Doctor Who Lego will rise by £2.49 to £52.48.
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https://www.theguardian.com/busines...-raise-its-prices-in-uk-from-january-sterling
 
Crossie said:
May and Brexiters won't change that.


It was totally predictable. Don't WT..=me, read your posts. That attitude of yours is all over them.
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No may wont change that but osbornes targets have been ditched. Still, cos neoliberalism isn't working in the eu thats no reason to copy just because uk is in the eu. Try something different.
 
Stanley Road said:
That is entirely true. Tax shy brits want services for free.
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I think Brits would be happy to pay more taxes if they felt they got better value for the taxes they do pay. Far too much of our taxes are currently being wasted nationally by the government and locally by councils.

I've never spoken to a Norwegian that doesn't support their tax system. They pay a fortune but are rewarded with great infrastructure.
 
Pexbo said:
I think Brits would be happy to pay more taxes if they felt they got better value for the taxes they do pay. Far too much of our taxes are currently being wasted nationally by the government and locally by councils.

I've never spoken to a Norwegian that doesn't support their tax system. They pay a fortune but are rewarded with great infrastructure.
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As has the rest of Western Europe.
Anyway the Brits can spend all the money they think they're saving, on the side of a big red bus by leaving the EU, on the infrastructure and services, that is if they believe a word they've been told but then they must have done otherwise why vote to leave.
 
Ubik said:
By the same token it makes claims that the EU is a tyrannical superstate looking to subsume national sovereignty look kinda ridiculous, doesn't it.
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I like to think of it as a sort of Schrodinger's Brexit: to leavers the EU is both somehow a failed venture that'll collapse within a few years, but also a strong, powerful entity that's year away from complete federalism.
 
Paul the Wolf said:
As has the rest of Western Europe.
Anyway the Brits can spend all the money they think they're saving, on the side of a big red bus by leaving the EU, on the infrastructure and services, that is if they believe a word they've been told but then they must have done otherwise why vote to leave.
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For what it's worth, I'm firmly in the remain camp. I think our government is bad enough with the EU keeping them in check. I dread to think what they are going to be like without them.

This talk of bringing power back to Britain... I'd be all for it if I trusted the politicians that will benefit from it.
 
Pexbo said:
For what it's worth, I'm firmly in the remain camp. I think our government is bad enough with the EU keeping them in check. I dread to think what they are going to be like without them.

This talk of bringing power back to Britain... I'd be all for it if I trusted the politicians that will benefit from it.
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I can't think of a politician I would trust anywhere in the world at the moment, but then again that's nothing really new, just worse than the usual. 2016 was a bad year for the world, I dread to think what 2017 will bring.
 
Paul the Wolf said:
I can't think of a politician I would trust anywhere in the world at the moment, but then again that's nothing really new, just worse than the usual. 2016 was a bad year for the world, I dread to think what 2017 will bring.
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If you think about it, 2016 was bad politically because it merely set in motion some really awful things. What that means is that the really nasty things are yet to come.
 
If real change is gonna happen in 2017, it's because nothing good happened in the last decade And nothing good happened in the last decade.
 
endless_wheelies said:
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Other than the big swing to Remain.
In the original poll - 80% thought trade conditions would improve if the UK left the EU - speechless
- 63% Immigration would influence your vote - what a surprise
- 70% Security against terrorism would improve if the UK left the EU - Europeans are terrorists?
 
That poll result would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic.
 
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Drifter said:
Brexit opinion surveys show huge swing to Remain in UK regions that voted Leave


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-in-uk-regions-that-voted-leave-a7494421.html
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Not a chance. The EU has shown it is incapable of running its own security and now the Banking system is teetering.
Who wants to be with them, drop the dead donkey.
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Here is one of the problems, this person seems to think that the EU is a country and he seems to think that the EU is in charge of the security of sovereign countries.
 
So a lot of the brain donors, knuckle dragging racists are now in the remain camp. I guess they are now considered to be in the uber class.
 
Lol, it was obvious the US cares about American self-interest but I wonder how long it will take Brexiters to admit reality is different than their dreams.

A good example is the EU trade deal with Canada. Canada was very keen to get access to the UK market and not because they want to buy a load more from the UK.
 
The US needed the UK to veto any EU resolutions that might have freed Europe from the US. Case in point is EU army. Now that the UK had shot itself in the foot by leaving the EU, the US simply doesn't need the UK anymore.

Wouldn't be hilarious if Nigel Farage is given the task of pinching the UK businesses to the US?
 
Crossie said:
What a genius Trump's aide is. I'm convinced nobody had thought about it before.
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Whatever the UK has the US can match it if not make it better

The UK is 5-6th biggest economy in the world - the US is no 1
The UK has London - the US have New York
The UK is pro business - The US is the capitalist wet dream with workers barely having any rights at all
The UK is isolated - The US is in NAFTA.
The UK have no trade deals (once it leaves the EU) - The US Have 14 trade deal with 20 countries

The only thing the US lack is unrestricted access to the single market + unrestricted access to all EU trade deals. That will soon be a goner
 
Paul the Wolf said:
They are always good for a laugh , but it depresses me how ignorant so many people can be
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Concerning the article itself, they didn't took into account the huge expense that represents the custom administration and the huge amount of officers that will be needed to control the goods entering and leaving the UK, they also didn't took into account the fact that the majority of UK's participation go back to the UK.

And what are the 12bn of possible trades, services or goods? And who are the clients?
 
devilish said:
Whatever the UK has the US can match it if not make it better

The UK is 5-6th biggest economy in the world - the US is no 1
The UK has London - the US have New York
The UK is pro business - The US is the capitalist wet dream with workers barely having any rights at all
The UK is isolated - The US is in NAFTA.
The UK have no trade deals (once it leaves the EU) - The US Have 14 trade deal with 20 countries

The only thing the US lack is unrestricted access to the single market + unrestricted access to all EU trade deals. That will soon be a goner
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I was sarcastic, didn't think it was necessary to add a smilie or white text. :wenger:

It's obvious that the US would be fine to negotiate a trade deal with the post-Brexit UK - one that serves their very own needs.
 
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